Volume 4 World Cup Legends, Chapter 34 Let the Ball Fly

Because Atletico's defense is very dense in the front, and each midfielder has a large range of movement, Barcelona can't tear through the opponent's defense by passing the ball alone, so they need the skilled Andres Iniesta and Messi to rely on their individual ability to force a breakthrough and get a chance to shoot, or give striker Villa Pedro the ball and let them shoot.

However, Barcelona's tactics have been played for so many years, and the personnel are this team, which is familiar to almost every La Liga team, but because of personal ability, most teams can't crack it, just like knowing that a certain player will be faster, but his speed is not good, he just can't defend.

But Atletico Madrid's players are not bad in terms of individual ability, and the three people in the midfield of this game are all substitutes, they are holding the spirit of sacrifice and fighting for the psychology of position, the range of running is huge, and the scramble is extremely fierce, they would rather give Barcelona a free kick than give them an easy opportunity to pass the ball, so that Barcelona's cooperation was once in trouble.

The ball is more in the hands of Barcelona, but Barcelona can't do it so that Atletico Madrid doesn't have a chance to attack, once Atletico gets the ball, their attack also makes Barcelona's back line full of rumors.

In the 30th minute of the game, Atletico Madrid's scrambling intensity relaxed a little, Xavi, who controlled the ball, immediately passed a beautiful transfer, the ball reached Messi's feet, Atletico Madrid's marking was a step slower, Messi immediately passed Assunsão, and directly raised his foot to shoot.

It was the first time Messi spoke directly to the goalkeeper, and his shot was from a tricky angle, hitting the inside of the left post, but the power was a little less, and Asenjo was very focused and reacted quickly, and he flew to the touchline.

Just when the fans at the scene were sighing for Messi's attack and admiring Asenjo's save, Li Huan intercepted the ball saved by Asenjo on the sideline.

The ball saved by Asenjo was a random action, but Li Huan's reaction was very fast, he not only intercepted the ball, but also stopped for a moment, and turned around with the ball and his body, the ball landed, and the person also turned around.

A stop ball wastes one more second, the opponent's defense line can move five meters, and the close defenders can also have time to withstand you calmly. And Li Huan's stopping the ball is obviously a master-level level, and it is in no way inferior to world-class midfielders such as Xavi and Iniesta.

Li Huan's stop bought time for Atletico Madrid's counterattack, and Pedro, who was beside Li Huan, didn't have time to come up, allowing Li to face the direction of the attack, but he was behind Li Huan.

Atletico's counter-attack begins.

Turan, Falcao, and immediately moved closer to the left, Elias and Koko cut forward from the middle, and Atletico formed a five-man counter-attack net in an instant, directly to the Barca backline.

Barcelona's defense is more of a high defense, that is, defending when the opponent has just won the ball, so that the opponent does not counterattack, or cannot counterattack in time, in fact, Barcelona's defensive ability and their attacking power do not match. But now they are not able to defend in the high position, and can only retreat quickly and fight with the opponent's counter-attacking players.

Li Huan quickly rushed to Barcelona's bottom line with the ball, Barcelona's right-back Alves has not assisted much in this game, just worried about being beaten by Li Huan, seeing Li Huan running towards him with the ball, the cunning Alves did not go up, he suffered a big loss in Li Huan's hands, at this time he would rather retreat to his defensive area and wait, rather Li Huan drive straight in, than go up and be staggered by Li Huan, unable to find the direction.

Li Huan couldn't pass the ball to the middle, because the Barcelona players have a strong understanding of passing, so their running position is also very insidious, they are all running on the line between Li Huan and the counterattacking players, so that Li Huan can't pass the ball to the ground, and passing the high-altitude ball delays the precious counterattack time, in this case Li Huan can only dribble down or cut inside.

Li Huan chose to go to the bottom, although no one stopped the inner cut, but the middle lane was too crowded, and it was difficult to find space to play the advantage of speed.

Alves watched Li Huan approach step by step in horror, he bent his knees slightly to his side, always ready for Li Huan to forcibly overtake, he is a person who has suffered hardships, he has learned a lesson, Li Huan's explosive power within ten meters is quite amazing, at least Alves does not dare to guarantee that under Li Huan's full sprint, he can not be overtaken by Li Huan within ten meters.

Li Huan slowed down the speed of dribbling, began to change the rhythm, took a quick step and slowed down, and his upper body was still shaking with a feint, so that Alves's eyes were almost worthy, but the experienced Alves stuck his position and didn't kick, just waiting for Li Huan to cross from the bottom.

Li Huan was about to push Alves to the bottom line, but he still didn't cross, and after he made the last feint, he suddenly cut inside and rushed into the penalty area.

Li Huan's inward cut this time is very strange, because in terms of position, it is difficult for Li Huan to shoot inward into the penalty area, and the effect is not as good as cutting inward at the edge of the penalty area, and in that position, he almost shoots wherever he wants to shoot the goal.

However, it was unexpected because of the eccentricity, Alves had been waiting to intercept Li Huan's cross, but he didn't expect Li Huan to cut in here, he had to follow at this time, if he didn't follow the central defender, he would have to come out, and the middle would leak.

Alves followed to defend, and goalkeeper Valdés also rushed over to block the angle, but at this time Li Huan chose to hang the door!

Li Huan rubbed the tip of his right foot, and the ball obediently jumped up from the turf and went straight to the back corner of the goal.

Valdes was afraid of Li Huan's shooting ability and came out to block the angle, but he didn't think Li Huan would really shoot, but Valdés reacted quickly, and when Li Huan was hanging, he immediately jumped up and wanted to hit the ball.

However, Li Huan's hanging shooting footwork is very good, the ball is not very powerful, but it flies very high, like a little bird, just over Valdés's Five Finger Mountain and flies to the back corner.

Due to the slow speed of the ball, in the 0.1 seconds that the ball flew, the eyes of the fans were all focused on the ball, and the Barcelona fans prayed, "Hit the goalpost!" "Rise above the beam!"

However, the reputation of Xiao Li's flying knife was not for nothing, and the ball fell quickly after passing Valdés' interception, and fell diagonally against the crossbar into the net.

1:0.

More than 80,000 Barcelona fans were collectively speechless, no one could speak, this was a speechless goal, light and fluttering, without a little weight, but it was very deadly.

“goalgoal…… Li Huan! It's Li Huan again! He scored his 41st goal, tying Ronaldo's single-season goal record, as long as he scores one more goal, he can surpass Ronaldo, and now there is still a lot of time to hope that Li Huan can score another goal, victory and defeat have little meaning for Atletico Madrid, and now the most important thing is that Li Huan scores, creating a great goal record, so that future generations of defenders will bow down. ”

Valdés stared at the ball in the net, his eyes glazed over, and he couldn't believe it had gone in.

Atletico Madrid's players cheered, they rushed to Li Huan, lifted Li Huan high, scoring a goal in a passive situation is very important for Atletico, now they have the initiative in the game.

After Li Huan scored, Barcelona's offense became a little messy, and it was not as patient as it was at the beginning, which looked lively and vigorous, but in fact there was not much real threat, it was better to start Barcelona's slow pace in a sudden straight stop, or a sudden breakthrough. Atletico Madrid, on the other hand, played more easily, and they did not possess much of the ball but grasped the initiative of the game.

Soon the first half passed, Barcelona did not equalise and Atletico did not extend the score.

After the break, Barcelona made a substitution, Pedro came off the field, Sanchez came on, and Guardiola hoped that Sanchez could strengthen the breakthrough and tear apart the opponent's defence.

Atletico also made substitutions in the second half, Elias, who ran in the first half and received a yellow card, was replaced, and he was replaced by Gabi, who continued to strengthen the midfield's running and scrambling ability.

Barcelona saw that Atletico Madrid was too fierce, so they patiently waited for Atletico to run out of energy, and then launched a general attack in the last 20 minutes. Atletico Madrid has no possession, they have a ball in hand, and they are not afraid of Barcelona playing a war of attrition, so they will consume it with Barcelona.

In the 20th minute of the second half, Barcelona gradually strengthened their attack, but Atletico Madrid made substitutions at this time, two midfielders were replaced, and two more midfielders came up to continue to strengthen the running and scrambling.

In the 70th minute of the game, Barcelona besieged the Atletico Madrid penalty area, Li Huan ran to the middle to assist in defense, and the ball was headed by Li Huan to his teammates on the side, and he ran forward to ask for the ball.

It was right-back Felipe who received the ball on the side, Felipe did not pass the ball to Li Huan again, he made a long pass directly to Falcao, hoping that Falcao could use his individual ability to form a direct shot.

Falcao and Li Huan cooperated very happily, Falcao received the ball with his back to the goal, and saw Li Huan rushing out of the penalty area, Falcao directly passed a long pass to Li Huan in the backfield. Li Huan passed to Falcao again, Falcao passed back directly, so the two played table tennis like two passes, Li Huan was almost in the middle circle, he saw that Valdés was a little forward, Li Huan did not hesitate to stop the ball and shoot directly.

The ball whistled up, flew over the midfielder Buskos, flew past the 1.9 meter central defender Pique, and flew past the panicked Valdés, and went straight to the penalty area, which was very short, less than a second, but in the hearts of Barcelona fans, it was like traveling through time and space.

Finally, the ball is in!

2:0!

Atletico Madrid fans jumped up first, they chanted Li Huan's name, chanted Long live Li Huan, crazy applause filled the huge Camp Nou stadium, and at this time some Barcelona fans also applauded with Arsenal fans, Li Huan is too strong, strong to the point of conquering the opponent's fans.

"goalgoalgoal....... Li Huan scored the 42nd goal, Li Huan broke Ronaldo's record, he is now the player with the most goals in a single season in La Liga, he has created a history, he is a part of history, and I also want to declare, he is not a striker, he is a defender, but he has achieved the Premier League top scorer! Bundesliga goalscorer king! Now he has won the top scorer in La Liga again! Great defender with a knife! He is the embodiment of magic, Li Huan, he humiliated Valdés with two hanging shots, I don't know if this will bring a shadow to Valdés' career later on...... Let's bless him and pray for him. ”

The passionate commentary from the commentator further stimulated the atmosphere on the pitch, and the Atletico fans in attendance showed almost all their enthusiasm, just like they did when they won the title two weeks ago, and the joy of beating a strong opponent like Barcelona was no worse than winning a trophy.

Li Huan was hugged tightly in the middle by his teammates again, they jumped and jumped together, played trapeze, and played Arhat, they were extremely excited and enjoyed the interest of scoring goals.

Manzano finally smiled, and he now believed they could pull off miracles.

The Barcelona people were dumbfounded, they couldn't believe their eyes, Barcelona didn't score, Atletico Madrid scored, this is the last thing they want to see.

Soon the Camp Nou was filled with singing, with Barcelona fans cheering their team and Atletico Madrid celebrating with singing, and there was a special feeling mixed together.

After 2-0, Barcelona attacked more fiercely, they were already out of the way, they had to score, they couldn't stand to be teased at home, they had to score, even if it was another goal by Atletico.

At the last moment, the game became more beautiful, and Atletico Madrid, who were almost exhausted of physical energy, set up an iron bucket formation, they had two goals in hand, and they had the capital to put down the iron bucket formation to consume time, but unfortunately their iron bucket is not tight now.

Eighty minutes into the game, Barcelona finally scored a goal from their briquette king, which was a typical Barça-style goal, and after 22 passes, Iniesta finally attracted attention and passed the ball to Messi, who burst into the box and shot, he hit Asenjo with a crotch, making it 2:1.

However, Barcelona's cheers have not disappeared, Atletico Madrid scored again, because Valdés has been hit seriously lost self-confidence, lack of concentration, Li Huan's corner kick scored directly, scored a hat trick, and expanded the score gap to two again, this goal basically locked the win, Barcelona was powerless, and they were not in the mood to fight again, they could only sigh that Li Huan was too perverted, and could only complain about their bad luck.

The final score was 3-1, and Atletico ended their magical league season with an away win over Barcelona, and a week later they will face Real Betis for the Copa del Rey, and if Atletico can beat Real Betis to win, they can repeat the glorious history of 18 years ago, or even make even greater history.

(To be continued)